How to pass app verification on Facebook?

Question

Facebook

Hello everyone,
I need to automatically upload photos to Facebook group albums.
I started to deal with the API and application settings and literally fell into a stupor. Tell me who worked with him, how everything happens :)
As far as I understand, to create albums and upload / edit photos in them, you need user_photos and publish_actions permissions. But you can’t just request them: you must first get approval for your application.
On the App Test page, I added requests for these permissions, but FB is asking for:
1. Describe how FB testers will be able to test the app.
2. Record a video about how the function works.
The problem is that it doesn't. Without permissions, nothing works and nothing is written, because I can't test anything. And in order to write an application and debug it ... I need these permissions. Vicious circle.
Who faced, tell us how they all happen. Some kind of nonsense, to be honest, especially after the API VK and Odnoklassniki, where there is nothing of the kind. How can you write applications with functions to access which you need this application?
Website application. I sort of figured out the authorization, but due to my lack of access to scopes, the following comes out:

Answer 1

I also struggled with this. Our task was to get a list of all the musical artists that the user liked, and based on this list, recommend him the next concerts in his city.
Achieved permission for user_likes. We managed to get approval like this:
1 We created the "Recommend concerts to me" button
2 By clicking on this button, the "Authorize through Facebook" button is offered
3 By clicking on "Authorize through Facebook" we made authorization in a new pop-up window in which, after 3 seconds the message "You are successfully authorized! Details have been sent to your email [email protected]" is shown.
4 We kill the pop-up window using window.
5 Most importantly, since we do not yet have rights to user_likes (user likes), after successful authorization we show the user a fake list of concerts with a message, based on your interests, we can recommend you to go to Spleen at the Olympic on November 26 (just with ceiling)
This process needs to be filmed, it doesn’t matter that the recommendations are fake, the main thing is that the meaning is clear.
In your case, the video should show that it would be useful for the user to give you access to their photos. If the user simply opened access, then this will not work. You need to come up with a motivation, for example, to find people like me.
6. The last important point, you need to create a couple of test accounts with random data in developers.facebook in the "Roles -> Test users" tab (for testers from
facebook
) that he is authorized (after authorization, you must show a message like you are successfully authorized and show him a link to manage his account on your site, you can send it by mail, but it is better to immediately send it to your personal account)
3 Failed to prove the usefulness of the functionality for the user

Answer 2

You need to go through a review .
The administrator / developer of the application can get rights, with them you can record a video of the application. In addition to the administrator, there are test users .
Be sure to read and strictly follow this https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
You need to prove that your application benefits the user. Stupidly uploading photos to an album does nothing. You need to get around this somehow. Make a photo contest or something that makes it interesting for the user to use it.

Answer 3

We can't get through the review either.
The essence of the application is as follows - the participants of our loyalty program register in the APP using a phone number, like, comment and repost page posts and receive bonuses to their account for this.
With likes and comments, everything is OK, here we were previously approved. But after May 2018, Facebook stopped giving information on reposts and does not approve of the application with reposts.
Help, please, how to pass the test?